Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution

1. 23 February 1917

   • Fall of tsarism
   • Provisional government
     • New government
       • Kadet and Esers
         • Soviets didn´t wanted them
           • Supported the Bolsheviks
             • Commanded by Lenin
               • Goverment with peasants and workers
                 • Control of the factories, nationalising the banks and recognising the nationalities of the Russian Empire
                   • They proclaimed a workers´government led by Lenin
               • He wanted to sign peace with Germany
                 • Treaty of Brest-Livostock(1918)
                   • Russia accepted territorial losses in exchange of peace
             • Red Guards
             • 25 October 1917
               • Rebels occupied Petrograd
             • November 27 1917
               • Constituent Assembly
                 • Lenin disssolved it
                   • Put an end to political pluralism
                     • First revolutionary measures
                       • Land was expropiated to the peasants, and the worker comittees were given the control of the factories
             • Civil war
               • People who supported Tsarism took up arms against the Soviet Government
                 • With the help of French, British, Japanese and American troops, the white army confronted the Red Army
               • Lasted 3 years
                 • The Red army won the war
                   • Contributed a lot on the hardening of the Soviet Regime
               • People suffered food shortages

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